Word: pavelitch
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...largely composed of Regular Army units, which never surrendered, is fighting in eastern Serbia near the border of Bulgaria. The other is operating on the borders of Bosnia in western Serbia. From Bosnia fully 1,000,000 Serbs have been driven by Dr. Ante Pavelitch's squads of terrorists, the Ustaschi. Most of the men refugees have joined the Chetniks in the hills...
Yugoslavia. Serbian Chetniks kept up their wild guerrilla fight against Adolf Hitler and Ante Pavelitch, his Croatian stooge. Yugoslav rebels warned the Nazi commander in Belgrade that they would slaughter 650 German prisoners if he killed any more Yugoslav patriots...
...Yugoslav revolt that the Nazis were reported sending a whole panzer division of 12,000 men toward Belgrade. To dislodge Yugoslavs from four towns the Nazis had to resort to shelling with 155-mm. guns and dive-bombing. The fight went on, although the Nazis and Stooge Pavelitch's brown-shirted Ustashi lined Yugoslavs up by the dozens and riddled them. In the Banat region 42 bodies swung in a market place for a day and a night. Hangmen noosed the young neck of Gaysin Grodza, a girl of 21 who had bombed a German store...
Even supporters of Croatia's quisling Premier, Ante Pavelitch, were deserting to the Chetniks. On the rocks by Croatia's roadsides, on the bricks of Croatian walls, white paint smeared out the Pavelitch slogan: "Jivilo Hrvatska Ustashi!" (Hail Croatia's Revolutionists!). To Nazi-inspired rumors that Dr. Vladimir Matchek, imprisoned leader of Croatia's once-powerful Peasant Party, had been offered the job of Premier to replace Pavelitch, Croats in Ankara cried...
...last week's deal the cream of the Dalmatian coast went, not to puppet Croatia, but to the Kingdom of Italy. Benito Mussolini also knows that Napoleonic kingdoms are not always permanent. For the present, however, Il Duce and his King Aimone will have the loyalty of Poglavnik Pavelitch, who plotted the assassination of King Alexander for Il Duce, then hid out in Italy for seven years until he could help in the assassination of Yugoslavia. Serbian komitajis had a better idea: in their list of men marked for assassination, Pavelitch's name led all the rest...